Quotes of: Little-things Keyword

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.

Gone Girl

It's not a game if you don't cheat, it's just two sods making a mess with fifty-two pieces of paper.

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While

Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While

I suppose if you ten children one of them might go into government, which is the same as losing a child really.

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While

...the villagers had decided that 'practical' meant 'extremely magical and full of interesting objects' and had officially subtitled themselves, Winesap: A Pracktical Towne.

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While

Where are there lots of colors, Colton?" "In Heaven, Dad. That's where all the rainbow colors are!

Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

The Little Drummer Boy" was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy seneless with his own drumsticks.

How to Build a House

Her occupation was the worst that anyone could think of. No guest in the park had to think of it because, unlike the wandering dwarf women, her job had no bearing on paper.

The Biggest Little Bird

The toaster (lacking real bread) would pretend to make two crispy slices of toast. Or, if the day seemed special in some way, it would toast an imaginary English muffin.

The Brave Little Toaster

Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.

The Brave Little Toaster

It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.

The Brave Little Toaster

I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

Melanie Chisholm

At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.

1984

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Authority and the Individual

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

Have a Little Faith: a True Story

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

I Have A Dream

It...whatever 'it' is, has swallowed me and I lie here in the pit of its cold dark stomach being eaten alive by its bile and I...I don't even know if I want to be saved.

Jagged Little Pieces

It was a well-known fact that Lorna was leaving in six months’ time, since Lorna had been leaving in six months’ time for close to twenty-five years.

Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls

I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

Second April